¶ … Sarah Orne Jewett Charles Chesnutt contributed local color fiction nineteenth century stories respective regions (Jewett writing New England Chesnutt South). ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS: Your essays MLA Style approximately 2-3 pages, including Work(s) Cited page. Charles W. Chesnutt is one of the most representative African-American individuals in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. He addressed topics related to race in an environment that was hostile toward such thinking and even though he risked greatly as a result of putting his thoughts in writing, he managed to provide the whole world with information concerning how African-Americans were actually able to maintain and promote cultural values. Even with the fact that he adopted an attitude that would prevent the masses from being able to associate his writing with his skin color, he nonetheless played an essential role in promoting African-American cultural values.

The fact that Chesnutt used a realistic approach at discussing...

"The Goophered Grapevine" is probably one of his most significant short stories depicting the old South from the point-of-view of an individual who experienced slavery from a first-person perspective.
Uncle Julius, the main character in "The Goophered Grapevine," is a stereotypical African-American individual who seems to be superstitious and who generally appears to have a poor understanding of how the world works. The short story puts across concepts related to both humor and irony as Uncle Julius tells the story concerning the cursed grapevine. Even with the fact that he has a lot of features characteristic to nineteenth century African-Americans, Uncle Julius is an unique character. Instead of recounting plantations stories with the purpose of putting across nostalgia (as most readers might imagine he would), he is actually concerned about…